The last thing to collapse is the surface.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

God is subtle but he is not malicious.

I see in Nature a magnificent structure... that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility.

Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive knowledge.

During the youthful period of mankind's spiritual evolution human fantasy created gods in man's own image, who, by the operations of their will were supposed to determine, or at any rate to influence, the phenomenal world. Man sought to alter the disposition of these gods in his own favour by means of magic and prayer.